How to Use bad/poor form in a Sentence

bad/poor form

noun

• Both teams have some poor form to shake off, each having lost three of their last five matches.
  — oregonlive, 15 Sep. 2023
• Since there are so many flavors of poor form, knee pain caused by them is equally variable.
  — Lauren Del Turco, Health, 6 Feb. 2024
• Just make sure to keep your body under control, since there's no need to make your day worse with bad form.
  — Men's Health, 13 Jan. 2023
• Again, a slow start and poor form saw Diniz leave the exit door after just a few months at the club.
  — Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
• Pushing yourself to lift with poor form can also increase your risk of injury.
  — Alyssa Ages, New York Times, 3 May 2025
• Whispers of Death are very bad form; the Swedes in the rear are visibly freaked.
  — Dean Kuipers, SPIN, 8 Jan. 2023
• Some common causes include runner's knee, tendonitis, poor form, or the wrong shoes.
  — Lauren Del Turco, Health, 6 Feb. 2024
• Technically, it’s considered bad form to run up the aisle or push your way past the people in front of you.
  — Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
• City were not planning to spend much money this month, but the injury situation and their poor form changed all that.
  — Sam Lee, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
• Even so, Ramsey caught heat for its delivery, as some online blamed her for showing poor form.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• That doesn't mean that HP didn't show poor form by suddenly ripping choice from its own customers.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2022
• No one gained an advantage by taking off before the whole group, which Kornfield said would have been bad form.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Mar. 2021
• After demonstrating his poor form, Shady watched as Goff threw a perfect dart downfield.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Sep. 2022
• For one thing, it’s considered bad form to go lunging after a squirrel while the shape of your head is being inspected by a judge.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 14 June 2021
• Causes of knee pain after running can range from runner's knee to having poor form while running to wearing the wrong shoe for your foot shape and stride.
  — Lauren Del Turco, Health, 6 Feb. 2024
• The song wasn’t heard much last season, when Rashford—hampered by injuries and in poor form—seemed to lose not only his touch but some of his hunger.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2022
• Harry Brook is very much the future of English cricket and, despite poor form, could well pick up the ball and move to the next step.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
• Convincing users to pay for additional tools by bombarding them with scary pop-ups from the tool that was installed to protect them is bad form.
  — Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 16 Nov. 2021
• Most importantly, don’t jump in—to do so is extremely bad form that will be remembered by those in attendance and could come back to bite you.
  — Dr. David Lenihan, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
• Weaver says that despite United’s poor form, the club is still commanding top-end commercial revenues for shirt sponsorships.
  — Steve Price, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
• Lopetegui was eventually sacked on January 8, having failed to fix West Ham’s poor form.
  — Roshane Thomas, The Athletic, 5 Feb. 2025
• Even when your workouts are balanced, lifting with poor form, such as letting your shoulders hunch during rows or squats, can ingrain postural dysfunction.
  — Dana Santas, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025
• Several people told me that it is considered bad form to talk about politics in Margaritaville.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• For better or worse, in periods of bad form, players and fans tend to not want to hear articulately delivered nuance and positives.
  — Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
• Later, one of the company’s favorite tactics was to poach its competitors’ best engineers and coders—bad form, perhaps, but a good business tactic.
  — James Surowiecki, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2025
• In the 1997 Ashes opener, England crushed an Aussie team ravaged by poor form and injuries.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
• But Maresca, the third permanent coach hired by the current regime, has to come up with solutions to Chelsea’s poor form, and fast, to improve his own standing in the polls.
  — Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025
• Meaning, any not-so-great habits for your back and hips—like lifting too-heavy items with poor form, sitting for hours on end, or carrying things always on the same side—can spell trouble for your pelvic floor, too.
  — Erica Sloan, SELF, 7 Mar. 2025
• Sinner could have played in the tournament and collected a hefty appearance fee, since the sport’s ruling bodies don’t sanction the event, but that would have been considered poor form.
  — Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
• For most soccer teams, this would be an indication of bad form, difficult moments that supporters try their best to forget and probably a sign that the team is looking for a new coach.
  — Jamie Barton, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024